Corrected entry: Bond uncovers a plot to transport raw opium in fake aid packages. He tastes some, a brown, sticky substance that looks like Marmite. However, in a previous Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, Bond uncovers a plot to smuggle raw opium in giant paper rolls. He tastes some, but the raw opium is a golden substance more like honey. How does the opium change colour?
BocaDavie
17th May 2010
The Living Daylights (1987)
15th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Corrected entry: While the Black Widow is fighting in the hallway near the end of the movie, she uses a rope and wraps it around a guy's neck. When Happy is finished with his one guy he is fighting you see a guy hanging from the ceiling. She never hung anyone from the ceiling.
Correction: The scene cuts from a shot of the Black Widow fighting to a long shot of Happy finishing his fight with one guard. The Black Widow has plenty of time off camera to hang the guard she is fighting from the ceiling. In the Theatrical Cut you saw exactly how the guard got up there, they cut it for some reason.
15th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Corrected entry: During a scene at the military base a vast selection of military aircraft are shown. One of them is the B2 Stealth bomber. These are ONLY kept at Whiteman Air base in Missouri.
12th May 2010
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Stryker describes his last ditch option for Wolverine he intends to shoot Wolverine in the head with an Adamantium bullet. The background on Admantium in the movies (and comic books): Adamantium is a complicated alloy that may only be worked in its liquid form. Once it has hardened it is virtually impossible to destroy, and absolutely impossible to manipulate through modern machining techniques (e.g. milling, lathe, or any other machine shop process.) On fire arm physics: firing a bullet through a modern firearm causes the bullet in question to compress to the slightly smaller diameter of the barrel. The rifling inside the barrel imparts spin to the bullet, allowing for a stable trajectory; in essence you hit what the barrel is aimed at. These two facts cause the error. An Adamantium bullet fired through a conventional gun would cause the barrel to explode because the bullet cannot compress. An Admantium bullet fired through a gun with an Admantuim barrel would be the quintessential irresistible force meeting an immovable object because the barrel cannot expand, and the bullet cannot compress. The result of this would normally be an explosion, however due to the near indestructibility of the metal in question I do not know the likely result of such an occurance. The physics do not compute.
11th May 2010
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Corrected entry: An essential plot device is that the talking human doll proves humans were productive and creative before the ascent and takeover of the apes. This is absurd. We are shown repeatedly that the apes' entire society is based heavily upon the previous human one - this is a sneaky buildup to the end scene when we find out exactly why that is! So, in human society we have talking mice, ducks, rabbits, pigs, cats, dogs, snakes, elephants, fish, crabs: name the species, we have given them the ability to speak, walk upright, drive cars, in fact to adopt every human characteristic there is. Surely the logical assumption upon finding the talking human doll is that an ape toymaker created a talking human for the same reason humans created talking apes?
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. The talking human doll is not a plot device; just something that Taylor uses to help prove his point. Dr. Zaius already knows that humans once ruled the planet; he was just stuck for an explaination of why the doll talked when he first saw it. Given time he would have postulated that apes created it, but was interrupted by the attack on the cave.
11th May 2010
A Few Good Men (1992)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Lt. Kaffee asks Col. Jessip, "Lt. Kendrick ordered the Code Red, didn't he? Because that's what you told Lt. Kendrick to do." Then Capt. Ross shouts "object", but Kaffee keeps going, stating how Jessip cut the defendants loose after the plan went bad. During this tirade, both Ross and the Judge shout at Kaffee. At one point, the Judge says to Kaffee, "Consider yourself in contempt!" However, at the very end of the movie, Kaffee leaves the courtroom on his own. No procedure is conducted relating to him being charged with contempt of court as the Judge had ordered. Did the Judge forget about it? How about the bailiff, or Ross (as a prosecutor)? Are we supposed to just forget about the fact that Kaffee should technically have been arrested?
Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. The judge wants to see the tirade play out, so he specifically says "Consider yourself in contempt" instead of "I am holding you in contempt". This gives him the leeway of interpretation and can decide later if he actually wants to charge Kaffee with contempt.
7th May 2010
The Living Daylights (1987)
Corrected entry: When Necros is clinging to Bond's boot hanging from the plane, and Bond starts cutting open his shoe laces - why didn't Necros just grab hold of the net again?
Correction: He could barely maintain his grip on the boot using both hands, if he took one hand off - even for a fraction of a second - he could have fallen. Apparently from his point of view he could not safely grab the net, and for all we know he was frozen in panic in the last few seconds before falling.
3rd May 2010
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When May Day pushes the Rolls Royce containing Bond and Tibbett into the lake, the car begins to sink near land because there are branches of a tree close to the car. But just a few shots later, the Rolls Royce has moved to the middle of the lake.
Correction: It begins to sink near the land, but takes time to completely flood; we see Bond inside regaining consciousness as the car fills with water. The momentum carries it out further into the lake as it slowly begins to sink (the wire pulling it into the lake has already been submitted).
10th Mar 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the Joker shoots the window out while holding Rachel, he points the gun too far to his left to hit the window, yet it shatters.
28th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the interogation room scene, Commissioner Gordon leaves through the door facing the Joker. When Batman appears behind the Joker, there is a door behind Batman. Two doors yet Batman only barricades one door to keep the police out, and Gordon only runs towards one of the doors, not even trying the other one.
Correction: First, Gordon is only one person so he is only able to run to one of the doors. We are never shown where the other door goes. If it was an exit that only led to the holding cells (a logical choice, since that is where you take prisoners after interrogation) the people in the viewing area would not be able to access it. Also, it could just be a door to a bathroom or storage room.
31st Jan 2010
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the hospital is exploding, the shot from a helicopter shows a car exploding at the very bottom of the screen, when it is too early and therefore nothing else could have caused it. (01:52:45)
12th Apr 2010
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Corrected entry: After Truly meets Jeremy and Jemima's father for the first time, she calls him "Mr. Potts", but Jeremy and Jemima never told her their last name.
Correction: Lots of off-camera time between encountering the kids at the pond and driving them back to the house; she could have asked them their full names during the trip. Considering the time period that would have made sense - she would have wanted to be prepared for a formal introduction. The Potts' house also has a sign at the end of the drive announcing 'Caractacus Potts - Inventor' Truly Scrumptious would have seen and read this before addressing Mr Potts.
5th Jan 2004
Die Another Day (2002)
Corrected entry: Sean Connery had already filmed his scenes to play James Bond's father in a cameo when somebody remembered that James Bond is an orphan.
Correction: I find no reference to any scenes filmed with Sean Connery playing Bond's father. You are probably thinking about an idea posted on the internet by someone, some random thought that obviously was never going to happen. Having played the role through several movies Sean Connery would know better than anyone that Bond was an orphan.
12th Apr 2010
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, just after the "queen" dragon is destroyed, Hiccup falls head-first, engulfed by the flames, but the injury he receives is losing his left leg.
3rd Apr 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Corrected entry: Alice's size in comparison to the other characters in the beginning of the movie changes constantly, without her drinking or eating anything.
1st Apr 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Corrected entry: Alice commented that the scratches gained from the Bandersnatch were "fully healed", and when she was fighting the Jabberwocky, no scratches appeared on her arm. However, when she comes back from the rabbit hole, she still has the scratches on her arm.
6th Mar 2010
Avatar (2009)
Corrected entry: When Jake faces off with the hammerhead rhino, its family unit or herd is not behind it until after it charges and then begins to back off.
2nd Apr 2010
Jurassic Park (1993)
Corrected entry: In the scene when the characters are having dinner, just after the first waiter delivers the food to the table, you can see the second waiter in the top left corner waiting for his cue to deliver the food to the table. You see him waiting a few seconds for the other waiter to return and then he comes into shot completely, with the plate. (00:33:00)
1st Apr 2010
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Corrected entry: When Astrid meets Toothless for the first time Hiccup says "She's a friend", referring to Toothless. It's established many times that Toothless is a "He".
18th Mar 2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Corrected entry: After Alice leaves Wonderland and talks to people at the party, she is wearing everything that she wore before entering Wonderland except for her mother's necklace, that her mother gave her at the beginning of the movie.
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Correction: This is a question, not a mistake. It is obviously two different processing methods to refine the opium into different forms for transport. In "For Your Eyes Only" the giant paper rolls concealed barrels that held a liquified opium, in "The Living Daylights" the opium had to be transported in solidified blocks carried on horseback.
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